Re: linux-next: Tree for Aug 13 [ screen corruption in graphical mode ]

[Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:16:10PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:05:41PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:40:37PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> >> >> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 07:53:25PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> >> >> >> Files attached.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Can you also please attach a full dmesg so I can check for anything
> >> >> > unusual?
> >> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Nothing scarred me on a couple of read throughs.
> >> >
> >> > What happens if you try:
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
> >> > index 112c5e1..9828d9b 100644
> >> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
> >> > @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ i915_gem_object_create_stolen(struct drm_device *dev, u32 size)
> >> >                 return NULL;
> >> >
> >> >         ret = drm_mm_insert_node(&dev_priv->mm.stolen, stolen, size,
> >> > -                                4096, DRM_MM_SEARCH_DEFAULT);
> >> > +                                1024*1024, DRM_MM_SEARCH_DEFAULT);
> >> >         if (ret) {
> >> >                 kfree(stolen);
> >> >                 return NULL;
> >> >
> >> > --
> >>
> >> Now, 2/3 till 3/4 of my LightDM greeter screen is a black bar (seen
> >> from the top).
> >> On the bottom I can read "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS" with the known background.
> >> So-to-say 3/4 "blind".
> >
> > That implies that the scanout is always reading from the base of stolen.
> > Can you grab intel_reg_dumper so that I can check what values the
> > transcoder is set to?
> >
> > At the moment, I am guessing that the display never sees the updated
> > surface offset and so persists with the value programmed by the BIOS -
> > which will be 0 and set to the base of stolen memory in the GTT. A
> > drm.debug=6 dmesg would help here as well.
> >
> > If you forced a mode change, I think that too would restore the output.
> 
> With which kernel? Vanilla next-20130813? With any of your patches?

Any but the working one ;-)
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre